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Territorial authorities and human rights, local and regional participation on the Institutional Committee’s agenda

Territorial authorities and human rights, local and regional participation on the Institutional Committee’s agenda
[11/02/2010]

Meeting on 15 February in Utrecht (Netherlands), the Institutional Committee examined reports on the role of local and regional authorities in the human rights implementation, on regional democracy in Switzerland and on local democracy in Iceland. The Committee held a discussion on local and regional participation in Europe, with contributions from Auke van der Goot, of the Dutch Ministrty of Interior and Kingdom Relations, and Herman Sietsma, Secretary of the Province of Utrecht. It also discussed developments concerning the situation of territorial democracy in Albania, Azerbaijan, Estonia, Latvia, Malta and Moldova.
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